Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact, is killing everything, from our ecosystems to potentially our food supply if we're poisoning fish and the foods that we eat. That is the broader sense.

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

We're not just being dramatic talking about a human extinction - that's the pathway we're on. We have to look at the bigger picture. If your child had cancer and it was unlikely they were going to survive, you'd do everything in your power to fight it.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.